This is the second year that I’ve had a Facebook account and I’m getting frustrated with it. I know most people like to complain about the changes being made to the program itself. They complain about the new looks and new features, saying that Facebook staffers are meddling with something that is already good. I think most of those people are just old fuddies who don’t like change – for the sake of not liking change.
But my frustration is from the people who are on there using it. When I started out with my account I had about 80 friends. These were people that I know in real life and most of what I said on Facebook was a close match to what I would say to these people to their face.
Somehow over the past two years my friends list has grown to almost 500 people and I have to admit that there are a lot of people on there that I do not know personally. They are more like friends of friends and maybe i will meet some of them one day.
But these people who are friends of friends can be a strange bunch of people. They spout off about all kinds of things that I do not agree with, on every subject from religion to politics to bashing celebrities. I worry that these people who say such extreme things might be reflecting on me, even though I do not agree with a lot of what they say. I am seriously considering deleting a lot of these people who are not really friends and who do not reflect my own values.